“Dirty Jobs” meets “CSI” in the surprisingly offbeat new series “True Grime: Crime Scene Clean Up” (9 p.m, Investigation Discovery). Over the past decade, “CSI” has made the depiction of crime victims and cadavers a regular television occurrence. More recently, a taste for zombie movies and shows has fed a curious audience appetite for the depiction of rotting flesh.

It’s worth noting that these morbid entertainment trends have coincided with America’s engagement in multiple wars, resulting in daily carnage that has been regularly depicted in foreign media but not shown on American television. That, we’re told, would be in bad taste.

“True Grime” follows the operation of Crime Scene Cleaners, a start-up in the San Francisco Bay area that has more than its share of business.

Has a drug-deal-gone-wrong left your driveway drenched in blood, brains and viscera? Who ya gonna call? Has the body of an unreported suicide become a tad ripe in Apartment 14-G? Better put these folks on speed dial. When folks arrested for being drunk and disorderly lose their “composure” in the backseat of a police car, Crime Scene Cleaners gets the job!

If the above paragraph seems flippant, it’s perfectly in keeping with the tone of this show. Crime Scene Cleaners founder Neil Smither describes his work and his staff with a curious detachment. Perhaps it’s because the job is both grotesque and dangerous. After all, what’s worse than scraping skull fragments off bullet-pocked pavement? Doing it while the recently deceased gang member’s pals have surrounded you with their makeshift shrine.

While hardly squeamish about gore, “Grime” leaves many questions unanswered. Who places the call? Who ultimately pays for this service? And how much does Smither charge? Is there a per-job fee? A retainer? Some kind of “menu”?

Like any entrepreneur, Smither protects his trade secrets. But he’s not afraid to reveal his inspiration. He got the idea for his business while watching The Wolf (Harvey Keitel) clean out a bloody car with brisk efficiency in the 1994 movie “Pulp Fiction.” Who says life doesn’t imitate art?

• TV-themed DVDs available today include season two of the HBO import “Epitafios.”

Tonight’s other highlights

• “Attack of the Show” (6 p.m., G4) recalls the late Ryan Dunn.

• Gordon Ramsay gets to holler on both “Hell’s Kitchen” (7 p.m., Fox) and “MasterChef” (8 p.m., Fox).

• Much ado about a houseboat on “Memphis Beat” (8 p.m., TNT).

• An Annapolis pal in need on “White Collar” (8 p.m., USA).

• Tempers rise as nets go unfilled on “Deadliest Catch” (8 p.m., Discovery).

• “Drug Kingpin Hippos” (9 p.m., Animal Planet) showcases the private zoo created by cocaine dealer Pablo Escobar.

• Injured veterans use softball as rehabilitation on “Real Sports With Bryant Gumbel” (9 p.m., HBO).

• The Taliban crash a wedding party on “Combat Hospital” (9 p.m., ABC).

• In civil war-torn Colombia, a librarian uses two donkeys to bring books to needy children in the film “Biblioburro” on “POV” (9 p.m., PBS).